Rodent poop on a prep table among disgusting South Florida restaurant violations

Rodents on a prep table, roaches running and flies on food went a long way toward six South Florida restaurants failing state inspection and making this week’s Sick and Shut Down List.

Inspections are done by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, either on rotation or by customer complaint to the agency. We merely report the results. Restaurants reopen after passing re-inspection, the first of which usually occurs the next day.

In alphabetical order:

Bond Street Ale & Coffee, 1626 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach

Complaint inspection, 12 total violations, eight High Priority violations

A fly on the wall near the three-compartment sink? Problem. Two flies on a rack with dirty dishes? Problem. Fly sitting on a Dutch apple pie? Stop Sale on the pie.

Stop Sales also crashed down on sausage and home fries that were left on the grill to cool down from 135 degrees to 70 degrees within two hours. But after 2 1/2 hours, they still measured 98 degrees.

An “employee touched her bare body part, her mouth, while eating, then started handling utensils on the grill without washing her hands.”

Standing water covered the bottom of a bar area glass door reach-in cooler.

Charleys Philly Steaks in the Broward Mall, 8000 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation

Complaint inspection, six total violations, two High Priority violations

Roach problems were the main reason this Broward Mall tenant got shut down for a day last week.

READ MORE: Roaches get a South Florida mall food court restaurant closed by inspection

How Ya Doughin, 8240 S. State Rd. 7, Unincorporated Palm Beach County

Routine inspection, two total violations, two High Priority violations

An expired license alone isn’t enough to get shut down for the day.

But when the inspector counts 36 flies on dining room seats and walls, a fly on a pan of cookies, another on a seasoning shaker, seven flies on a dish rack, five flies on pizza boxes and 22 flies elsewhere, you’re going to get put in inspection timeout.

Los Catrachos, 4663 Lake Worth Rd., Greenacres

Routine inspection, four total violations, three High Priority violations

Los Catrachos made this list in October with live roaches, dead roaches and a dishwasher that could wash but not sanitize.

This time, there were only three live roaches in a bucket in front of a food prep table and seven dead roaches elsewhere, including two on a lid to a cinnamon bucket.

A monsoon of Stop Sales for temperature abuse — food in cold storage not being at or under 41 degrees — came down on diced tomatoes, cut lettuce, cheese, raw beef, raw chicken, cooked beans, raw chicken, cut cabbage, milk, raw steak and raw fish.

Mi Tierra Food Truck, food truck, Palm Beach County

Routine inspection, three total violations, two High Priority violations

Six live roaches were in dry seasoning cabinets. Seven roaches played on a storage rack with single-service items. One was on top of paper liners. One live roach hung out on a takeout box. Another was on the door to a reach-in cooler. And 16 live roaches were elsewhere.

Mi Tierra’s food truck “has a water line hooked up to a great water tank to dump waste water into nearby mulch.” The inspector told the food truck operator to yank the hose and “properly dispose of the water.”

On the first re-inspection, the inspector saw “two live roaches inside the pizza oven where breads are being stored on the cookline.”

The second re-inspection got ruined by “one live roach on the floor in front of the flat top grill” and “one live roach inside the oven of a stove top unit, where clean pots are stored.”

The truck rolled again after passing the third callback inspection on Tuesday.

Saveur Tropical Restaurant, 515 NE 24th St., Pompano Beach

Routine inspection, eight total violations, four High Priority violations

Next to on top of food, the last place you want to see 20 rodent droppings is where the inspector saw them — on a kitchen food prep table. Fifty more poop pieces were “on container lids on the prep table’s bottom shelf.”

“Three live roaches in a can opener holder at the food prep table.”

The hot water at the kitchen handwash sink wasn’t hot enough, 78 degrees, when it needed to be 85.

There were “cooked noodles in direct contact with a plastic ‘Thank You’ bag in a three-door reach-in cooler.”

The re-inspection managed to be worse. In addition to 30 rodent droppings behind a storage-area chest freezer, the inspector saw “three dead rodents in a compartment with a motor at the single-door kitchen reach-in cooler.”